Yaniv Altshuler,1, 2 Nadav Aharony,1 Yuval Elovici,2, 3 Alex Pentland,1 and Manuel Cebrian1, 4 The Media Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel Department of Information Systems Engineering, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel Department of Computer Science and Enginee...

Purpose. This paper is a survey examining beliefs about cues to deception held by prison inmates, prison personnel and students. In line with the ideas about more beneŽ cial learning structures in the environment of criminals and Ž ndings from previous studies, we predicted that the beliefs held by prison inmates would be most consistent with the general pattern found in studies examining objec...

The aim of present study was to evaluate the association of thalassemia minor with suicide, impulsivity and aggression. The study group consisted of 293 suicidal subjects, 300 violent criminals and 300 control subjects. Thalassemia trait was slightly more common in criminals (7.3%) than in controls (6.67%), this difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.75). Similarly, carrier trait w...

In the rapid changing inter-connected environment, cyber criminals are opting sophisticated tools to hide their identities and locations. Stepping stones are now popular among the miscreants and making the situations worse. The paper details the role of stepping stones in hiding the cyber criminals and highlights it as challenge to differentiate the stepping stones from legitimate computers in ...

Criminal sanctions are usually public, stable and predictable. In contrast, the practices governing the determination of the probability of detection and conviction reinforce uncertainty. We invoke psychological insights to illustrate that criminals prefer a scheme in which the size of the sentence is uncertain while the probability of detection and conviction is certain. Consequently, the choi...

President Hush1 was extremely proud of his robotics troops. The search for the notorious criminal Assuma’ Hex Loaded was proceeding fairly well, and the robotic troops on the ground were on the verge of surrounding and capturing the escapee. Compared to this, the thrill of his chief scientific advisor, who was babbling about how efficient the new capture algorithm was, seemed to President Hush ...

The global prohibition of psychoactive drugs has arguably caused more suffering than it could ever prevent. A recent UN report shows that it also stimulates the creativity of those who create new designer drugs and ‘legal highs’. Neuroscientists have warned, on the other hand, that drugs control stifles research that could advance our understanding of the mind and find valuable therapies for me...